Sensation wbioh appears to be rapid, almost instantaneous, travels at the rate of only 28 motors per seoond. If a ohild asked for the sun, and bis nurse gave it to him, and he bad arms long enough to reaoh the sun so that it burnt his fingers, be would never feel this burn. The child would beoome an old man Bnd die long before the sensation of ] burning could pass from the tips of his fingers to his brain, for the time requisite for tbe transmission of thir.sen.ation would not be leas than 163 years.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6059, 19 September 1894, Page 3
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96Untitled Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6059, 19 September 1894, Page 3
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